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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 minutes ago

I'm literally installing windows right now. I feel disgust, but I need it for one application that I know will never have a Linux version. I got tired of the slow as shit virtual machine I used for it before. I can't replace it with an alternative either, for business reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 minutes ago

I sometimes feel an anxiety when pondering what will happen when daddy Gabe isn't here to keep the wolves at bay.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

me: steam is terrible; it's just drm with a nice bow on top

steam: steam visual novel fest starts now

me: i love steam stuffs more items on my wishlist

(for real tho itch.io and gog are much better use them - and download the actual offline installers from gog don't use galaxy)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I love my Steam Deck and Proton, but it pisses me off how many Steam games are spyware / DRMware and won’t start without internet on this PORTABLE console, and especially that Valve allows this kind of toxic shit.

So, my Steam Deck stays blocked from the internet in my firewall and I either buy from GOG when available, or there’s this girl on the internet who shares a huge library of games that require no internet connection.

Also, Gabe can STFU about piracy being a service problem until Steam bans DRM and spyware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

You can just not buy the games that have stuff like Denuvo etc. If you keep buying them, of course they'll keep including the DRM etc.

Steam is the storefront, and they have plenty of games you can buy without that crap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Yup pretty much it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Accurate and warranted.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago

Gaben is pretty chill, ngl

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 hours ago

I still don't understand why the company is so highly regarded. They enable underage gambling. Life must be easy for a company. You just have to be a little bit better than the others and you are regarded as a hero.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I never gamed, so...

  • Fuck gambling
  • Fuck walled gardens
  • Fuck billionaires (nobody needs that much dough)
  • Fuck Valve/Steam (it's easy for me to say)
[–] whats_all_this_then 42 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Steam isn't perfect and I sure as shit won't be the one defending a corporation, and this isn't a good excuse at ALL, but if you've never gamed you wouldn't believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

And as far as corpo rats go, at least Valve employees own 49% of the company.

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